I would say the lack of clear metaphysics in QM supports mysticism in general and popular eastern religions just tend to be more mystical then western. Otherwise its a bit like asking if a wrench embraces/perpetuates religion. Its mechanics, not theology or even psychology.

I'll agree with wuliheron: Quantum mechanics is not theology. Mixing science with religion (using religion to promote some science agenda or science to promote some religious agenda) is just a bad idea.

At the heart of the matter is Mr. Capra's methodology — his use of what seem to me to be accidental similarities of language as if these were somehow evidence of deeply rooted connections.

Thus I agree with Capra when he writes, "Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both." What no one needs, in my opinion, is this superficial and profoundly misleading book.

I'll agree with wuliheron: Quantum mechanics is not theology. Mixing science with religion (using religion to promote some science agenda or science to promote some religious agenda) is just a bad idea.

Why do you say this? I, for one, believe that there is a possible mixture of religion and science that could be acceptable to the majority of both groups.

I'll agree with wuliheron: Quantum mechanics is not theology. Mixing science with religion (using religion to promote some science agenda or science to promote some religious agenda) is just a bad idea.

Agree, and I would say it’s not only a bad idea – it’s an impossible/unworkable idea:

Science is about knowledge, in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.

Religion is about belief systems, which relates to spirituality and moral values.

Who would purchase a book with title 'The TAO of Physics'? This is not a book that everyone understands, you need to be smart on the subject. Knowledgable people on the subject have made this book a best seller

Bohr adopted the ying-yang symbol as his coat of arms when he was knighted. This is a bold statement and sends a clear message by one of the founders of Quantum Mechanics.

Hiesenberg admitted he was influenced by eastern philosophy. Another strong message by another founder of Q.M.

Capra later discussed his ideas with Werner Heisenberg in 1972, as he mentioned in the following interview excerpt:I had several discussions with Heisenberg. I lived in England then [circa 1972], and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him the whole manuscript chapter by chapter. He was very interested and very open, and he told me something that I think is not known publicly because he never published it. He said that he was well aware of these parallels. While he was working on quantum theory he went to India to lecture and was a guest of Tagore. He talked a lot with Tagore about Indian philosophy. Heisenberg told me that these talks had helped him a lot with his work in physics, because they showed him that all these new ideas in quantum physics were in fact not all that crazy. He realized there was, in fact, a whole culture that subscribed to very similar ideas. Heisenberg said that this was a great help for him. Niels Bohr had a similar experience when he went to China. ? Fritjof Capra, interviewe
As a result of those influences, Bohr adopted the yin yang symbol as part of his family coat of arms when he was knighted in 1947.

There are also many quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer that clearly show his admiration for eastern religion.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.J. Robert Oppenheimer

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.J. Robert Oppenheimer

The general notions about human understanding? which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find [in modern physics] is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

Bohr adopted the ying-yang symbol as his coat of arms when he was knighted. This is a bold statement and sends a clear message by one of the founders of Quantum Mechanics.

What does it state? It doesn't say anything clear to me at all. Do you have any quotes from Bohr explaining what he meant by choosing it?

Hiesenberg admitted he was influenced by eastern philosophy. Another strong message by another founder of Q.M.

Correction: Capra says Heisenberg said. The caveat: this was not published anywhere, sounds like a soft way of saying "Of course, you won't be able to find anything among Heisenberg's papers that will support my story, but..."

I think that is suspicious and should be suspected.

There are also many quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer that clearly show his admiration for eastern religion.